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Is it possible for me to share an itunes playlist with someone who is not on my local network and who has a different itunes account? I would like to send a playlist to my friend as a gift, but don't want to buy all the songs before I know it'll work.

This is what I found when searching for an answer online, but iTunes has changed so much since this posting that I don't know if the answer is still valid:

Give your playlist as a gift

You can gift a playlist to a friend, assuming everything is available on the iTunes Store.If you want to share the contents of you favorite playlist with a friend, you can send it as a gift (within the limits of what’s available on the iTunes Store, that is). If you select a playlist, then click the small arrow icon to the right of its name, a dialog box will display asking if you want to give this playlist or publish it on the iTunes Store. If you click Give Playlist, iTunes will look at your songs, then take you to the iTunes Store. This is, of course, limited to what’s available, and if your playlist contains any songs that are album-only sales, you won’t be able to give these; in fact, if your playlist contains any album-only songs, the process will stop, and you won’t be able to give anything from that playlist until you remove the album-only songs (and iTunes won’t tell you which ones they are, but these are generally songs that are longer than 10 minutes). But assuming you can give the playlist you’ve created, I’m sure your recipient will be very happy.

Thank you so much for responding, but I still don't know if this can be done, because that link tells me what to do in order to gift one item at a time (ie, one song, not an entire playlist), and it doesn't say what to do if the songs have already been purchased.

Do you know if I can gift to someone else an iTunes playlist that exists in my iTunes library? I am willing to pay whatever I have to pay to satisfy the copyright costs of purchasing these songs first for myself and then for my friend, but I just don't know how this can be done, or if at all.

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